Yes, it was necessary and made Luffy’s progression way more believable. Had it not been for that storyline, people would have called Oda out for FT level of bullshit power ups.
But it’s not like they skipped the pre skip story and directly started reading from post skip onwards. All of us suffer from rosy retrospection to some extent but some are more affected than others.
There are also several fans who started with the anime and could watch the story at their own...
Yes, I think that’s definitely part of the problem. People get older so they miss the old times when they were young and OP was still a new, fresh story from their perspective. That’s probably why they feel like the post skip story and its tone/mechanics are drastically different while those...
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